Farmers Markets near Lititz, PA

Lititz

A downtown market at 9 N. Water Street in Lititz, the Lancaster County borough known for Wilbur Chocolate and the Julius Sturgis pretzel bakery. Local farmers and food makers sell produce and baked goods near Lititz Springs Park, in one of the region's most walkable small towns.

Downtown Lititz Farmers Market runs at 20 South Water Street in Lititz, a well-preserved Lancaster County town known for its Moravian roots, pretzel history, and busy Main Street. Vendors from the surrounding farmland bring seasonal produce, baked goods, flowers, and prepared food to the town center. Lititz's walkable downtown and steady visitor traffic make the market a lively weekend stop in season. Check the current day and hours before you go.

Manheim

Open every Tuesday since 1925, Root's Country Market & Auction is a Lancaster County institution at 705 Graystone Road in Manheim. Standholders sell fresh local produce, farm-raised meats, and homemade baked goods alongside handcrafted items and collectibles. The grounds also host flea markets and live auctions for livestock, produce, flowers, and equipment. Hours run 9am to 9pm April through October, 9am to 8pm in winter.

Lancaster

Lancaster County Food Hub runs a grocery pantry, a seasonal clothing bank, and outreach that connects unsheltered neighbors to services from 812 North Queen Street in Lancaster. It is a nonprofit, not a farm stand: households facing food insecurity pick up groceries here, and the clothing bank covers coats and warm-weather basics as the seasons turn. Reach the hub at 717-291-2261 to check pantry hours and volunteer needs.

Central Market in Lancaster ranks as the oldest continuously operating public market in the country, running at 23 North Market Street since the 1730s. Standholders sell produce from local growers, meats, dairy, baked goods, cut flowers, and prepared meals spanning several cuisines. The market opens Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday from 6am to 3pm inside a historic brick market house just off Penn Square in downtown Lancaster.

Lancaster

Lancaster Central Market is America's oldest continuously operated public farmers market, established in 1730 — nearly 300 years of the freshest Lancaster County produce, meats, dairy, baked goods, and home-cooked meals under one historic roof in downtown Lancaster. Open every Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday 6 a.m. to 3 p.m., with beloved traditions from the June Strawberry Festival to the October Harvest Breakfast.

Paradise

This Saturday market sets up at 3293 Lincoln Highway East (Route 30) in Paradise, deep in Lancaster County's Amish farm country east of Strasburg. Standholders sell produce, meats, cheeses, and baked goods, much of it from the surrounding Plain-community farms.

A historic indoor market house at 35 S. 8th Street that has operated since 1892, open Thursday and Friday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Stands run from fresh produce and local meats to candies, pastries, hot pretzels, a coffee bar, and several sit-down restaurants inside. It anchors downtown Lebanon in the Pennsylvania Dutch country north of Lancaster.

Mount Joy

The Corn Crib Main Street Market sits at 35 West Main Street in Mount Joy, a Lancaster County borough surrounded by some of Pennsylvania's most productive farmland. Markets and farm stands in this stretch of the county lean on the region's Pennsylvania Dutch growers for sweet corn, tomatoes, tree fruit, eggs, and baked goods in season. Its Main Street location keeps local produce within easy reach of the town center. Check current hours before you stop in.

The market runs at 10 South Summit Avenue in Shillington, a Berks County borough just southwest of Reading. Shillington is best known as the boyhood home of writer John Updike. Warm-season stands here carry produce, flowers, and baked goods from surrounding Berks farms.

This is a Pennsylvania Dutch-style indoor market at 845 Woodland Road in Wyomissing, a Berks County suburb of Reading. PA Dutch markets keep stalls for the region's staples: fresh produce, meats and deli, cheeses, baked goods, and homemade foods. Wyomissing's spot off Route 422 makes it an easy stop.

The market gathers at 103 North College Street in Palmyra, a Lebanon County borough between Hershey and Lebanon. Warm-season stands here draw on the farms of the Lebanon Valley, with sweet corn, tomatoes, other produce, eggs, and baked goods.

Producers-only means every vendor here grows or makes what they sell, with no reselling of wholesale produce. This Palmyra market sets up at 325 South Railroad Street in Lebanon County, so shoppers meet the actual farmers and bakers. Look for Lebanon Valley produce, eggs, meats, and baked goods in season.

West Reading

A producer-only farmers' market on Penn Avenue in West Reading, where every vendor grows, raises, or makes what they sell within 50 miles. Sunday mornings bring produce, meat, dairy, and value-added foods made from local ingredients. The market accepts SNAP and FMNP checks, widening access for shoppers in the Reading area. It runs from mid-morning to early afternoon.

Leesport

Leesport Farmers Market — "Where Friends Meet" — is a Berks County, Pennsylvania institution on Gernants Church Road, anchored by its Wednesday market (8 to 6) plus Sunday flea markets, craft shows, toy shows, livestock feeder sales, and events from the summer Hoedown to Halloween flea markets.

Reading

This seasonal open-air market runs on the 400 block of Penn Street in downtown Reading, the Berks County seat. Curbside stands carry produce, flowers, and prepared foods from Berks farms into the city center. Penn Street is Reading's main downtown corridor, near the courthouse and the GoggleWorks arts center.

Saturday's Market is a large indoor and outdoor market at 3751 East Harrisburg Pike in Middletown, just south of Harrisburg. As the name says, it runs on Saturdays, drawing shoppers to stalls of fresh produce, meats, and baked goods plus a wide flea-market section. Dauphin County farms and Lancaster County standholders both supply it.

Reading

The Fairgrounds Farmers Market, next to Boscov's at Fairgrounds Square in Reading, gathers about 65 family-owned vendors at 2934 N. 5th Street Highway. Berks County shoppers come for locally grown produce, meats, cheeses, and prepared foods, and the market was voted the county's best in 2019. It runs year-round, Thursday and Friday 8am to 7pm and Saturday 8am to 4pm.

A small-town farmers' market on West Main Street in Elverson, a northern Chester County borough near French Creek State Park and Hopewell Furnace. Growers from the surrounding farmland bring seasonal produce and local goods to the center of town during the growing season. Days and current vendors aren't posted online.

York

New Eastern Market opens every Friday at 7am at 201 Memory Lane in York. The indoor market keeps stalls for farm-fresh produce, meats, seafood, deli counters, baked goods, and sit-down dining under one roof. York County shoppers voted it among the 2020 Best of York County for local produce and fruit.

Birdsboro

York

Central Market York gathers more than 50 vendors inside a historic market house at 34 West Philadelphia Street in downtown York. Stands sell fresh produce, meat, fish, baked goods, and flowers alongside prepared food ranging from BBQ to Thai, sushi, and sandwiches. Core hours run Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday from 9am to 2pm, with a monthly First Friday evening market. It sits near the Strand Capitol Performing Arts Center.

A family orchard and farm market east of Harrisburg, farming the same ground for more than a century. The market stocks its own baked goods, dairy, and honey, and runs a CSA of local produce through the season. Summer brings pick-your-own blackberries and cut flowers in the fields off Strites Road. The market keeps daily hours, staying open into the evening on weekdays.

A farmers market at 380 W. Market Street in York, near Penn Park on the city's west end. Growers from the surrounding York County farm country sell produce and goods here, part of York's deep market tradition anchored downtown by the long-running Central Market House.